Create a Rental or Booking Marketplace with WordPress

Install and activate the Hive Press plugin to add marketplace features to your WordPress site, then install and activate the RentalHive theme to style and run a rental marketplace.

Extend your rental marketplace by installing HivePress extensions, enabling geolocation with Mapbox, and configuring a public Mapbox token in the settings to activate location-based search.

Define your rental marketplace structure by adding listing categories like houses, tours, and sports equipment. Create custom listing fields (attributes) with names, types, and display options to enable filters.

Set up the HivePress plugin to manage listings, hosts, users, bookings, geolocation, and integrations, including search fields, moderation, time slots, calendar availability, and reCAPTCHA protection.

Explore how to add and book listings on a WordPress marketplace, including front-end listing submission with geolocation, images, custom fields, and time-based booking rules, approvals, and calendar management.

Create a home page and a listings page using layout blocks, add a listing search form, categories, and recent listings, then publish and link them in WordPress settings.

Customize a rental marketplace built with WordPress by adding a header image, setting site identity with a logo and colors, and tailoring menus, fonts from Google Fonts, and CSS.

Learn to monetize a rental marketplace by charging for adding and featuring listings, earning commissions on bookings, and setting up paid listing packages via WooCommerce.

Configure a commission or fixed fee on every booking using the high price marketplace extension included with the rental hive scheme, manage discounts, variable prices, and host payouts.

Learn how vendors request payouts by adding a payment method and submitting a payout request when balance meets the minimum. Admins approve and process payouts manually or via Stripe Connect.

Optimize your WordPress rental marketplace with Lightspeed Cache by enabling object and browser caches, minifying and merging CSS and JavaScript, enabling WebP image optimization, and lazy loading embeds.

Build and launch a WordPress rental marketplace quickly for real estate bookings or item marketplaces. Use HivePress to customize and grow your platform for clothes, equipment, and sports gear.